A list to help you find materials about American black history in celebration of Juneteenth. We also recommend reviewing the Anti-Racism and Black Lives Matter Virtual Pop-Up Library and Learn & Unlearn: Anti-racism Resource Guide for more resources and contemporary contexts. We welcome additional resource suggestions to flaxman@saic.edu!
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Viral Justice by
From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time "A true gift to our movements for justice."--Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice is a sweeping and deeply personal exploration of how we can transform society through the choices we make every day. Vividly recounting her personal experiences and those of her family, Benjamin shows how seemingly minor decisions and habits could spread virally and have exponentially positive effects. She recounts her father's premature death, illuminating the devastating impact of the chronic stress of racism, but she also introduces us to community organizers who are fostering mutual aid and collective healing. Through her brother's experience with the criminal justice system, we see the trauma caused by policing practices and mass imprisonment, but we also witness family members finding strength as they come together to demand justice for their loved ones. And while her own challenges as a young mother reveal the vast inequities of our healthcare system, Benjamin also describes how the support of doulas and midwives can keep Black mothers and babies alive and well. Born of a stubborn hopefulness, Viral Justice offers a passionate, inspiring, and practical vision of how small changes can add up to large ones, transforming our relationships and communities and helping us build a more just and joyful world.
Dismantling Constructs of Whiteness in Higher Education by
This book offers counternarratives from People of Color (POC) engaged in varied departments, faculties, and institutions in higher education to interrogate and challenge the construct of whiteness as an ideological form reproduced across campuses throughout the United States. Documenting individuals' lived experiences, the text uses narratives, personal stories, and autoethnographic approaches to explore how social and racial injustices manifest themselves at both a macro- and micro-level through structures and ideologies of whiteness, as well as personal and group interactions. This book, divided into four valuable parts, offers reconceptualizations of racial diversity in higher education, and further explores identity politics within the academy to ultimately posit that a varied approach is necessary to combat the equally varied ideological forms of whiteness. This text will benefit scholars, academics, and students in the fields of higher education, race and ethnicity studies, and academic librarianship more broadly. Those involved with the multicultural education, education policy and politics, and equality and human rights in general will also benefit from this volume.
Items on this list have a digital preview but are not fully digitized due to copyright. Make an appointment with the Joan Flasch Artists' Books Collection to see and read these books.
Fragments of the Peculiar Institution by 
Go-rilla Means War by 
The Life and Poems of Osceola Mays by 
Long Slow March by 
Things Stolen From POC by 
American Hunger by 
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 a Documentary in 9 Chapters by 
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Fred Hampton: Black Panthers in Chicago, 1969
I Am Not Your Negro [Film] by 
Lessons : XXXI-LX by 
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Do the Right Thing by These books are all electronic. Click here to see physical books on the Flaxman Library Juneteenth reading list.
African Americans in Art: Selections from the Art Institute of Chicago by 
The African American Roots of Modernism by 
African American Voices: A Documentary Reader, 1619-1877 by 
Africobra by 
Antiblackness by 
Beyond Blackface by 
Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being by 
Black Imagination by 
Black Lives Matter at School by 
Black Power Afterlives by 
Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film by 
Black Trans Feminism by 
Black Utopias by 
Changó, Decolonizing the African Diaspora by 
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by 
The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop by 
Pleading the Blood by 
Resolutely Black by 
Road Through Midnight by 
Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance by 
Temples for Tomorrow by 
Theorizing Race in the Americas by 
The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense by E-BOOKS - FICTION + COMICS + POETRY
These books are all electronic. Click here to see physical books on the Flaxman Library Juneteenth reading list.
Parable of the Sower by 
Parable of the Sower: a Graphic Novel Adaptation by 
